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Shortly after President Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of treason – an epithet that has been thrown at Trump practically every day – Obama spokesman Patrick Rodenbush said: “These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.”
Distraction from what?
Rodenbush didn’t have to say, because the media have been busy filling in that blank.
“Trump tries to distract from Epstein by casually accusing Obama of treason,” is how MSNBC put it.
CNN’s headline blared that “Trump’s longtime rage at Obama roars back amid Epstein furor.”
“Critics say Trump is trying to distract from Epstein by talking about everything but that,” is how ABC News put it.
Let’s see if we understand this.
We’ve just learned that hundreds of pages of declassified documents appear to show that Barack Obama orchestrated a phony Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) report, issued just before Trump first took office in 2017, that accused Vladimir Putin of ordering an “influence campaign” to “denigrate” Clinton and “help” Trump win the 2016 election, in a apparent attempt to sabotage Trump’s presidency.
As RealClearPolitics’ Paul Sperry reported last week:
‘Obama ordered the ICA to set Trump up and knock him off balance before he could even get started,’ said the senior official, who asked to remain anonymous. ‘This was an influence operation far more consequential than anything [Russian President Vladimir] Putin cooked up. Obama and Hillary [Clinton] schemed the op, and the CIA and FBI ran it.’
But to Trump haters in the press, this is just a “distraction” from the really important issue: Namely, unverified rumors and wild speculation about Trump’s dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison six years ago.
Isn’t that it more likely that the media’s Epstein fixation is meant to distract the public from the startling Obama news? Or Trump’s many successes in his first six months? And isn’t this just another attempt to sabotage his presidency as his term is getting started? This Washington Post headline says it all: “Trump fumes as Epstein scandal dominates headlines, overshadows agenda.”
Well, that got us wondering what constitutes a “distraction” in the eyes of the media.
Back when Joe Biden was in the White House and Republicans were launching an impeachment investigation, the press called that “a political distraction from other priorities.”
What priorities? The press was happy to parrot Biden’s line that “I’ve got a job to do. I’ve got to deal with issues that affect the American people every single solitary day.”
We saw the same thing during the Obama and Clinton administrations, where any whiff of a scandal was dismissed by the press as a “distraction” from the important work of running the country. And whenever Ronald Reagan, or a Bush, or Trump wanted to talk about real issues, the press treated that as an attempt to divert attention to whatever scandal they were playing up.
The Daily Beast provides yet another example of how this works, with its headline over the weekend that “Trump Floats Prosecuting Oprah as Latest Epstein Distraction Tactic.”
So, we decided to write down the official media definition of “distraction.”
Distraction (n.):
- Events or scandals that threaten the interests of a Democrat
- Anything that doesn’t fit the media’s anti-Republican narrative
We hope this clears things up.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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The Democrats had four years to investigate Epstein and share the results with the public. It would have been bad enough if they had done nothing for four years, but they actually did even worse. They very quietly fired the Attorney General for the US Virgin Islands because she opened a case against JPMorgan Chase for failing to report Epstein’s highly suspicious financial transactions as he trafficked young women. This was done on New Year’s Eve, 2022, and because of the holiday almost nobody even noticed.
Joe Biden was actually in the Virgin Islands, staying at the seashore villa of a wealthy businessman, when this happened. Biden has bragged on video about withholding a $1 billion government loan to Ukraine to get a ‘corrupt’ prosecutor fired, when the real reason was that the man was investigating Hunter Biden for corruption concerning his $1 million a year ‘job’ as a director of a Ukrainian gas company.
In his own words, Biden said “You’re not getting the billion dollars.” “I’m leaving here in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the money.” “Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.”
Did Joe Biden do the same thing to the AG for the US Virgin Islands?
Biden just happened to be in the Virgin Islands, when the AG just happened to get fired, for investigating connections to a man who just happened to ‘commit suicide’.
The Democrats are once again accusing other people of misdeeds to misdirect the public, when the evidence strongly suggests that they are the party that is guilty of committing actual crimes.
For more details, go to ensign.substack.Com, scroll down and click on “Did President Biden get the Attorney General of the US Virgin Islands fired to end her investigation of Jeffrey Epstein’s cronies?”
Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr’s father, Donald Barr, was the 1970’s headmaster at the Dalton private girls’ school and hired an uneducated, uncredentialed math teacher who had no university degree, no history of teaching, no references, no qualifications whatsoever. The name of that unskilled teacher? Jeffrey Epstein . . . What a cohencidence (sic).
It seems Putin had a thick file of dirt on HC. For what purpose? I suspect that if she won he figured he could manipulate (i.e. blackmail) her into doing his bidding on some things. If this is true then he had no interest in helping Trump win the election. And if the Obama camp knew of Putin’s dossier on Hilary, it raises interesting questions regarding the motivations behind the ‘Trump-Russia’ narrative. Hamstring Trump while, and possibly just as important, deflect scrutiny away from HC, where, if diligently pursued, could trace back to Obama’s Deep State. The crippling of Trump45 was all too successful and the ‘Biden’ (Obama3) regime was disastrously successful. All in all it’s taken 16 years to really begin to un-transform Obama’s “Hope & Change” America.